Best freakin’ vacation – Ever!

There was snowboarding, bike-riding, a romantic picnic & then there was the sweetest proposal ever uttered. 

“Marry me honey” 

Shane & I are getting hitched! 

20 Months in advance & I am already planning like a maniac! Almost immediately upon our arrival home I was racing down to Kikki K for a wedding planning folder & bridal magazines.

We officially set the date this morning. It is a long time to wait but we have big dreams of a romantic French & Italian honeymoon in the spring that will require lots of saving. I want our wedding itself to have lots of beautiful homemade touches & I am lucky enough to have my florist friends, my dressmaking mother in law to be & lots of help from everyone.

My friends & family could not be more amazing or supportive. The phone call to my best friend went something like this:  Shannon- “Shane & I are getting married!” Maggie- “OMG, Congratulations! I-am-soooo-jealous!” After will you marry me, these are the second most important words a gal can hope to hear.  My younger sister Brooke went into high pitched screaming I am sure only dogs & I could hear.

I think Shane is slightly horrified at the pace of which things are being planned in the 3 days since he proposed. Little does he know I have been planning for years, the proposal was simply a formality.

Proposal aside we had an excellent holiday. We saw the newborn pygmy hippo at Taronga zoo, there was an epic dump of powder at Thredbo on our last 2 days of snowboarding, a free M TV concert in the snow with Operator Please & Bliss n’ Esso, a spectacular room at Diamant in Canberra & some insanely good food.

Now for the slightly bad news.

Food blogging is the natural enemy of the bride. We have dresses to fit into & skin to make glowingly healthy. I have decided for now that there is going to be a lot more healthy stuff on Bake & Bloom for the next 20 months.

I want to lose 20kg to put myself in a more healthy weight range before our big day & buttercream can only get in the way of that.

You can probably expect to still find at least 1 sugar laden fat fest on Bake & Bloom at least once a month (which I plan to feed to people in my office & sniff longingly), but you will also be finding more things like homemade  wholemeal English muffins, granola bites, quinoa pancakes, sugar free oatmeal cookies ect.

I think we can get through this diet together.

In other exiting news my Step sister Rachael is getting married to her partner Adrian (aka- funniest man alive with the best smile I have ever seen) on the 17th of October & has kindly asked me to make her cake & flowers! I can’t wait for their wedding & picking up ideas & advice from them.

One last thing.

I am so incredibly happy right now I could just die! xoxoxoxo